International Forestry Students Association - Events

WINTER MEETING OF FORESTRY STUDENTS 2012

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:08:33 +0100

The Slovenian Forestry Students Association (SiFSA) is happy to announce and invite you to
Winter Meeting 2012 in Slovenia.

The eight day long meeting will begin in Ljubljana with lectures of professors from the Biotechnical faculty. They will present some main features of Slovenian forests and forestry. This year we are planning to see the north-east part of Slovenia. We’ll begin our travel with expert-guided excursions in the north part with high mountains and montain forests. Then we’ll continue our journey east, admiring different landscape types. There we will see a lot of capital forests, which the far east doesn’t have. Instead we will learn about low-production and swamp forests and managing methods in particulary. The last days of the meeting will be spent visiting the sunny vineyard region and its culture.

This is the first notice for invitation. More information about the meeting will be available in January, when the registration will open as well.

Additional informations:

Duration (11^th – 18^th march 2012)
For now we have tendered 23 places for foreign students: 3 people per LC.
Maximum provided participation fee is 125 €, but we will try our best to get it lower.

I the name of the Slovenian OC I hope to see you in Slovenia.

If you want some more information about this event, please contact me:

Jaša Saražin
Head of WINTER MEETING 2012
Tel: +386 41 653 124
E-mail: jasa.sarazin@gmail.com

Southern European Regional Meeting

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:47:23 +0100

This year's SERM will take place in Switzerland on order to show you the many different functions swiss forests should provide in order to meet the various needs and expectations, like wood production, recreational time, protection from natural hazards and promotion of biodiversity. In six days, from the 10.-15. April 2012, you will be able to join different excursions, take part in workshops, learn something about swiss culture (chocolate & cheese & maybe more), see different parts of Switzerland, get to know new people from different countries aso... Join us and visit our website in order to register: http://serm2012.blogspot.com (two students from each Local Committee have first priority)

Contact:
Stefan Beyeler
serm2012@gmx.ch

Forestry Versatility

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:48:50 +0100

Would you like to test your knowledge and skills, exchange experiences with colleagues from other countries and maybe learn something about Czech forestry? Does that at least a bit sound as fun to you? Than take your friends, send us a registration form and come to spend another exciting IFSA event in Brno and surrounding forests.

The 26^th traditional forestry competition - Forestry Versatility is held in Brno, Czech Republic

from 16^th to 21^st April 2012.

Competing teams should be composed of 4 forestry students (at least one girl in the team). Only one team per university is allowed.

Teams are going to compete in following disciplines:

- Shooting (shot gun – skeet, trap; air gun)

- Identification of natural objects (plants, trees, insects, birds, minerals)

- Game management (aging and identification of tracks)

- Use of chainsaw (chainsaw essembling, stock saw, etc.)

- Knowledge of forest management and inventories

The participation fee is 100EUR per team, which will cover your accomodation, food and partially drinks.

Is there anything more you would like to know? Would you like download registration form and read more about previous years? Don’t hasitate to contact us with your questions:

Jiri Gol (jiri.gol@seznam.cz) - registrations

Martina Tekelova (martina.tekelova@gmail.com) - other info

Deadline for registration is 16 March 2012.

We are looking forward to see you in Brno,
organization team.

Northern European Regional Meeting - Nature for People - People for Nature

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:44:02 +0100

The Northern European Regional Meeting takes place in the Netherlands from 6th to 12th May 2012. We stay close to our university place Wageningen and visit Nature areas and other places all over the Netherlands. The costs are around 80€ p.P. For further information, check the official NERM website www.nerm.ifsow.nl Also registration is possible there. We are very excited and hope to welcome as many LC's as possible at the NERM. In the first round three people per LC from Northern Europe can apply, if there are free places left, maybe even more is possible.

Contact: nerm@ifsow.nl

3rd ASIA REGIONAL MEETING 2012 IN INDONESIA

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:47:49 +0100

The third Asia Regional Meeting will be organized by IFSA LC Universitas Gadjah Mada and held in Indonesia. It will be an intensive full seven days program. This Asia Regional Meeting will provides an opportunity for 60 forestry students' all around Asia to broaden, enrich, and share new knowledge and experience; exchange and create breakthroughs; and strengthen bonds between Asia students.

The theme for the third ARM is “Enhancing Management Effectiveness Protection Area through the Role of Stakeholder”. We would like to inform how the Protection area is managed in Indonesia and also broaden knowledge about the opportunities of collaborative management of protection areas through the role of stakeholders.

This meeting will be held on May, 21-27 2012. During 7 days of meeting, the participants will visit various place in Indonesia that are: D.I.Yogyakarta, Kebumen (Central Java), and Kamojang (West Java). They will visit conservation area in Indonesia and of course famous tourism spot in Indonesia like Prambanan Temple.

More info : arm2012@leafletr.org | http://www.leafletr.org/index.php/site/arm/homepage

Forests in a green economy: contribution and the youth position

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:00:28 +0100

International Forestry Students Association (IFSA) Conference

Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development Local Council
Eberswalde, Germany, 29th – 31^st May 2011.

THEME: Forests in a green economy: contribution and the youth position

Forests provide a variety of goods and services that are key assets in a green economy. Mainstreaming forest values in national policy making decisions can help transform national economic policies towards a green economy in the context of job creation, poverty eradication and sustainable development.

To maximize the contribution of forests there is a need to make use of existing opportunities and to address gaps in areas such as valuation of forest goods and services and the inclusion of young foresters, and upcoming generation of forest professionals in the process.

The local council of the International Forestry Students Association (IFSA), Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development is organising a three-day conference. The conference will bring together students from all around Europe and diverse audience of high level speakers to Identify the role of young forest professionals and forestry students in green economy.

Venue: Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany.

Date: Tuesday, 29^th – 31^st May, 2012

Participation Fee: 30 Euros

Call for Papers: if you are willing to give a presentation please send an abstract of your presentation to us

Contacts: ifsa@hnee.de

Tolulope Daramola
President, Organizing Committee Phone: +49(0)15787767995

Kathrin Mueller-Rees
Secretary, Organizing Committee
Phone: +49 (0) 179 6656 857